Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal

Taking the concept of "image" as a central feature in the process of language teaching and learning, this article describes and attempts to understand the images of Portuguese higher education students concerning French as a foreign language, during two consecutive academic years. Our resu...

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Main Authors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Susana Pinto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACEDLE 2009-04-01
Series:Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/2112
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author Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
Susana Pinto
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description Taking the concept of "image" as a central feature in the process of language teaching and learning, this article describes and attempts to understand the images of Portuguese higher education students concerning French as a foreign language, during two consecutive academic years. Our results show that these images are extremely academic and homogeneous at the two different moments of the research. This main conclusion allows us to reflect upon the role of the curriculum in the construction and evolution of those images and also upon the need to make higher education discourse more aware of plurilingualism.
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spellingShingle Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
Susana Pinto
Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
images of languages
French as a foreign language
language didactics
title Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
title_full Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
title_fullStr Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
title_short Évolution des images du FLE à l'université : une étude de cas au Portugal
title_sort evolution des images du fle a l universite une etude de cas au portugal
topic images of languages
French as a foreign language
language didactics
url http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/2112
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